Practicing Human Rights Law in America

Keynote Address The Making of a Human Rights Lawyer

• Hadar Harris, Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law Introductions TBA

ACLU

Capital Punishment in America

• Deborah Fleischaker, Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project American Bar Association
• Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director  National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Ginger D. Anders, Associate Jenner & Block
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East Asian Law Society

From East to West: Helping Refugees and Victims of Human Trafficking

• Melanie Flamenbaum, Staff Attorney for Boat People SOS
• John Ackerly, President of the International Campaign for Tibet
• Sara McDowell, Senior Immigration Program Officer, The National Center for Refugee & Immigrant Children, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
• Moderator: Elizabeth L. Young - Visiting Associate Professor of Law

Housing as a Human Right: Litigating Homelessness

by the Human Rights Law Society

• Tulin Ozdeger Civil Rights Director National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
• Amber W. Harding Staff Attorney Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

Reproductive Justice Law Society

SEX TRAFFICKING: U.S. Perspectives and Policies to Address a Worldwide Epidemic

• Andrea Bertone - Director, HumanTrafficking.org
• Laura Lederer - Senior Advisor on Human Trafficking, U.S. Department of State
• Ann Jordan - Program Director, GlobalRights.org
• Karen Stauss - Staff Attorney, Polaris Project
• Moderator: Suzanne H. Jackson, Professor of Clinical Law, The George Washington University Law School

Screening

• "Rape is . . ."
  by Cambridge Documentary Films
  Looking at rape from a global and domestic perspective this film focuses mainly on the domestic cultural conditions that make this human rights outrage the most under-reported crime in America the student group sponsor is the Feminist Forum

Human Rights Law Society

Local Heroes: Protecting Human Rights in D.C.

• Joanna C. Day, Supervisor, D.C. Law Students in Court Program
• Vanessa Allyn, CAIR Coalition
• Art Spitzer, Legal Director of the ACLU for the National

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Muslim Law Students Association

Restoring Habeus: Representing Detainees at Guantanamo Bay

• Carol Elder Bruce of Venable LLP, counsel to three Egyptian detainees at Guantanamo Bay
• Matthew MacLean, of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, counsel to Kuwaiti detainees
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International Law Society

Human Rights in Pakistan: A Dynamic Perspective

• Aziz Huq--practitioner Professor Shelton recommended highly as an expert in Pakistani political and legal affairs
• Dr. Manzur Ejaz--a columnist for the Daily Times, BBC, the Nation, and the News. A Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Punjab in the 70's and the 80's, he faced harassment from the Islamic government of General Zia for his outspoken views, leading him to seek refuge in the United States. Dr. Ejaz did his Ph.D. in economics from Howard University, Washington DC. He is the author of " Epistemology of Development Economics", and "Ranjhan Yar ..." a Punjabi play staged in Washington.
• Hina Hussain--a student who will give her own personal perspective of the political chaos and how it has affected her family and her perceptions of the conditions in Pakistan.

Panelists will discuss the the current human rights situation in Pakistan and the socio-political factors which affect the rights of its citizenry. Two practitioners and a student will share their unique perspectives on the current situation in Pakistan. Hear them speak candidly about the people, the politics and the power struggle which poses unpredictable challenges for this nation.

• Jill Tauber, Skadden Fellow, Advancement Project DC
• Lyn Beth Neylon, Human Rights Activist
• Laurie Davis, Dc Public Defender Service, Mental Health Division
• Melysa Sperber, Vital Voices Global Partnership
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Reception